Senators vow to quickly confirm Powell's appointment

CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- President-elect George W. Bush is expected Sunday to name Condoleezza Rice as his national security adviser, a day after appointing retired Gen. Colin Powell as his secretary of state.

Rice, 46, has been Bush's international policy adviser, and served on the National Security Council in the late 1980s under Bush's father, then-President George Bush. She was an adviser on the Soviet Union to that administration.

Rice has been a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution and provost of Stanford University. She has degrees in political science and international studies.

Texas Supreme Court Justice Al Gonzales is also expected to be named soon as the president-elect's White House counsel.